2019 Junior Summer Sculling Programs

Meet our coaches

Mike Van Beuren: Mike van Beuren has coached sweep and sculling since the 1990s. As a rowing athlete, he represented the USA abroad as a Junior sweep rower. Later in life, Mike became a multi-year National Champion single sculler and set a number of World and National age-group records on the Concept2 ergometer. He lives in Hartland with his wife Mary who is also a sculler.

Sophie Bartels: Sophie learned to row with the Hanover High School crew team, and continued on to row four years at Colby College. She returned to Hanover to work as a research coordinator on a mental health project in Colombia, and started coaching the UVRF-Lebanon Crew varsity girls’ team in the spring of 2018. She has loved having the opportunity to coach this awesome team, and has also helped with novice, master’s, and fall crew rowing.

Casey Kelsey: Casey learned to row in high school at St. Paul's, rowed at Brown, and now is Head Coach of Girl's Crew at Choate.

Joe Jones: Due to an injury I was forced to transition from a competitive running program to rowing in 2016. That year I progressed through UVRF novice, club, and masters programs. I have been training and racing with the masters since.

Junior Sculling

In sculling, each rower holds 2 oars and rows in small boats. UVRF owns many sculling boats, including singles (one person), doubles (2 person), and quads (4 person) that are available to club members under certain conditions. If you are already a sweep rower, sculling is an excellent way to develop boat feel, balance and technical skills.

In addition to the programs listed below, that are exclusively for juniors aged 14-22, the club offers Learn-to-Scull clinics for first-time rower-scullers and Free Sweep-to-Scull clinics for experienced sweep rowers.

Junior Club Members have the privilege of using club singles and doubles throughout the summer season on their own IF they have the requisite level of certification following the club sculling policies, and do at least one of the following:

pay the Club Sculling Equipment Fee, offered to juniors at $100 for the entire season

register for a Sweep Program (Leb Crew)

Fall Junior Racing

register for a Junior Sculling Clinic or a Learn-to-Scull Program (must become a member after program, if not already one)

register for Intermediate Coached Sculling Sessions

pay for rented rack space.

For more information on club sculling policies and procedures, please visit the sculling section of the UVRF website. If you have questions about junior programs at UVRF, please ask your reps or email the club.